Dog Talk

The hypocrisy of most people is breathtaking.  According to a column in the NYT by someone who "writes about the intersection of religion and politics", 70% of Americans identify as "Christians".  This is obviously a meaningless term to the people who regularly vote  for republicans and the policies espoused by that party.  The writer goes on to lament the decline in "god talk".   Terms like thankfulness, grace and salvation are no longer on the tips of most people's tongues.  In the polarized times in which we live with a rising portion of the population who identify with a religion, but not its tenets, it is no wonder few people speak out about belief in supernatural beings.  I also find it refreshing that many have abandoned even a pretext of declaring belief in a divine being who frets about the well being of billions of humans, but is curiously uninvolved in the tragedies, major and minor which befall them.  If more of us lived by the "Golden Rule", there would be less need for abstract concepts of god talk.